military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (01/07/91)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Tuesday, 7 January, 1941 The Italian submarine Nani is sunk northwest of Ireland by the British corvette Anemone. Thai troops attack Cambodia, occupying several disputed border territories. Britain agrees to a relaxation of its blockade of German-occupied territories; the Red Cross will be allowed to transport condensed milk to France and wheat to Spain. British bombers attack Italian troop concentration west of Tobruk; Derna, Martuba, and Tripoli are hit. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "Let us say to the democracies: "We shall send you, in ever- increasing numbers, ships, planes, tanks, guns." Such aid is not an act of war. When the dictators are ready to make war upon us, they will not wait for an act of war on our part." - Franklin D. Roosevelt